The community

Post a thread

1. Open Community and press New thread (sign in first).
2. Pick a category: General, Show your skill, Help, Prompts, Agents & integrations or Feedback.
3. Write a one-line title and your post. Markdown works: the toolbar adds bold, code, links and lists, and Preview shows the post as readers will see it. Links open in a new tab.
4. Add up to five tags (cursor, claude-code, testing), so the right people find it. Popular tags are offered as you type.
5. If the thread is about one skill or prompt, paste its page link or type handle/slug. It shows as a card with its stars, installs and install command. It must be public.

Find a thread

Threads list as Top (points, newer threads ahead of old ones), New, Unanswered (no replies yet), Following and Saved. Top can be narrowed to today, this week or this month. The category list narrows the list to one category; a tag, on a thread or under Popular tags, narrows it to that tag. Search looks through titles, tags and posts, titles counting most; the time period does not apply to a search, and searching while signed out has an hourly limit per network. Staff feature a few threads at the top of the page. A thread's address ends in its title; an older link to it still opens it.

Each thread shows its replies and how many people viewed it. A view counts once per person per day, only when the page is opened on Deftro.

A thread opens with its first five top-level replies, the accepted answer first; Show more replies brings the next five. A post longer than about half a screen is shortened with Read more, and Show less folds it again; printing always shows the whole post. Replies nest up to three levels deep. Longer branches fold behind Show more replies, and deeper answers line up under the third level, saying who they answer. Every skill's page has the same kind of discussion, with the same votes and reports.

On a wide screen the sidebar of the Community list and of a thread can also carry one card labelled Sponsored, reviewed before it shows. It does not affect which threads you see or how they rank, and when nobody has bought the space it is simply not there.

Follow and save

Press Follow on a thread to hear about new replies, in Deftro and by email. You follow the threads you start and the ones you reply to without pressing anything; press Following to stop. The button shows how many people follow the thread. Bookmark keeps a thread under Saved to read later. Only you see what you follow and save.

A busy thread does not fill your inbox: while you have an unread notification for a thread, more replies add no new one, and opening the thread clears it. You get at most one email per thread a day and up to 10 such emails a day, and one reply emails at most 100 of a thread's followers, chosen at random. A mention counts separately (up to 20 emails a day).

Mark the answer

On your own thread, press Mark as answer on the reply that solved it. That reply moves to the top with an Accepted answer marker, and the thread shows Answered in lists, so the next person finds it first. Only a direct reply to the thread can be the answer, not a reply to a reply. If the marked reply is later removed or its author banned, the thread stops showing Answered until another is marked. Press Unmark answer to change your mind. Moderators can mark or clear an answer too. Replies by the person who asked carry OP.

To bring someone in, write @handle in a reply (or press @ in the toolbar). Up to five people per reply are notified. A handle inside code, a link or an image does not count, the part after @ in an email address does not count, and \@handle stays plain text.

Vote

Press the up arrow beside a thread or a reply; press it again to take your vote back. You cannot vote on your own post, and new accounts wait a day. Downvotes appear only while Deftro has them turned on. On votes, Follow and Bookmark, your last press is the one saved; if it can't be saved, the button goes back and an error says so.

Top contributors this week counts the upvotes people's posts received in the last seven days.

What a post may not contain

Code: content_refused

A post is refused, with a sentence saying why, when it has:

• bad language or abuse,
• a link that is not http or https,
• a link from an account younger than 7 days whose posts have fewer than 3 upvotes,
• a link to a domain moderators blocked,
• formatting nested far too deeply, such as lists or quotes dozens of levels inside each other,
• so much formatting in one paragraph that it would take too long to read, such as thousands of brackets. Ordinary posts never reach this.

A link counts however it is written: inline, as a reference, in angle brackets, as an image or as a bare address. Links to Deftro's own pages are always fine. A thread's title is plain text, so only its words are checked.

Rephrase the post, take the link out, or wait until your account may post links.

Votes that are refused

Code: own_post, downvotes_off

You cannot vote on your own thread or reply. A downvote is refused while downvotes are turned off. If very many people vote on one post at once, yours may be turned away with a message to try again; it is not counted.

Report a post or a person

Press Report on a reply, or open the ⋯ menu at the top of a thread for Report thread and Report author, and choose a reason: abuse or bad language, a malicious link, spam, promoting a competitor or yourself, off-topic, or something else. The author is not told who reported them.

A post is hidden while a moderator reviews it once 3 people with accounts at least 7 days old have reported it, or as soon as a moderator has. Reports from someone whose reports keep being dismissed stop counting.

What moderators do

Moderators read each report next to the post. They can:

• Hide the post. Its author is warned and sees the post with the reason; everyone else sees "Removed by a moderator".
• Unhide a post that was reported unfairly. It is back, and the reports against it are dismissed.
• Dismiss the reports, which also shows a held post again.
• Warn or suspend a reported person.

Moderators cannot decide a report about themselves, and only a super admin can act on a super admin.

Strikes and suspensions

Code: community_suspended

Each post moderators remove is a strike. 3 strikes in 90 days pause your community posting for 7 days; the message says when you can post again. Reading, voting and the rest of Deftro keep working. If a removal is reversed, its strike goes too, and a pause the strikes caused lifts once you are back under 3. A pause a moderator set on you directly stays until it ends or an administrator lifts it. For account-wide restrictions, see Reports and moderation.

During maintenance

You can still read every thread. Voting, replying, following and saving are paused, and each shows an info icon that says so. Anything you have typed in a reply stays in the box while the page is open, and you can post it once Deftro is back.